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Objective To investigate the prevalence rate of thyroid nodules as well as related influencing factors. Methods In this clinical study, 8,912 healthy people were included, involving medical staff, teachers, electric enterprise staff and civil authorities from January to December in 2014 . The prevalence rate of thyroid nodules and related influencing factors were investigated . Results (1) The prevalence rate of thyroid nodules was 40.4%, 34.9%for male and 46.7%for female. The prevalence of female was higher than that of male (P<0.001);(2) The prevalence rate of thyroid nodules showed a trend of increase with age (P<0.01);(3) The prevalence rate of thyroid nodules in medical staff and teachers was significantly higher than others (P<0.001);(4) The difference was statistically significant in BMI, blood pressure, blood lipid, blood glucose in thyroid nodule group and non thyroid nodules group (P<0.001). All indexes mentioned above of thyroid nodule group was much higher than those of non thyroid nodules group. (5) The prevalence rate of breast hyperplasia of females under the age of fifty years was significantly higher than those of non thyroid nodule group (P<0.001). Conclusion The prevalence rate of thyroid nodules is high. It is related to gender, age, occupation and estrogen. Effective measures should be taken to change people's bad habits, blood sugar control and blood pressure, reduce BMI and work tension in order to reduce the incidence of thyroid nodules.
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Objective To evaluate the effect of therapeutic communication on negative emotion and quality of life of stoke patients. Methods A total of 120 stroke patients were divided into the control group and the observation group equally. The former received routine nursing and the latter routine nursing plus therapeutic communication. After 4 weeks, they were evaluated by self-rating anxiety scale (SAS), self-rating depressive scale (SDS), trait coping style questionnaire (TCSQ) and the short-form health survey-36 (SF-36). Results After the intervention, the scores on anxiety, depression and negative coping in the observation group were lower than those in the control group (P<0.01), while the scores on positive coping and quality of life were higher in the observation group than those in control group (P<0.01). Conclusion Therapeutic communication can effectively improve stroke patients′negative emotion and quality of life.